Tyra Banks: I'm Too Busy For Motherhood

TYRA BANKS has said that she feels no need to "slow down" her life and become a mother - she's an "overachiever" and proud.

"I don't want to slow down and stop," she said. "I think there's a weird thing with women when we're high achievers and have high goals, sometimes it's like, 'Why don't you just sit down and have a baby?' I know I'm an overachiever and I'm not apologetic about it. I won't be slowing down any time soon; it's only going to get bigger."

The model also spoke about her new role as the face of Special K - for which she will promote positive body image in women - and recalled the media attention on her figure and the effect that had on her.

"Body image is something that has been important to me for a long time," she told the Metro. "So when people were saying I was fat, gross and disgusting, they weren't just saying it about me, they were saying it about any woman whose body looked like mine… I felt I needed to say something so I was very vocal and told the people who had negative things to say about me - or women that looked like me - to kiss my fat ass."